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This is the first time I have this information. I can throw out this unit in the upcomming CCM 3 without bigger problems.
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It's the same deal re: why all the joint TopGun/FireFox Units were removed: FF evidently did the same as Balck. I don't know the details of either, but I'd like too, as, e.g., some of the earliest Units in our db are conversions from AOK etc. - which leads me back to that "Fair Use Doctrine."This is the first time I have this information. I can throw out this unit in the upcomming CCM 3 without bigger problems.
Sharing here that Relive WWII can now be re-lived. It was one of the files in the AtomicGamer/3DDownloads archive that someone (@Blake00 ?) discovered. I probably should go through that more thoroughly as there are likely more scenarios to be restored.
This is as good of a place as any to note that I've also been sprucing up the Modern Scenarios list a bit. That means adding links to discussion threads, assigning icons to threads for easier visual identification, and assigning threads to the original creator so it's easier to find content authored by your favorite mods. Thank you to those who re-uploaded the scenarios in the past - for the ones I've updated today, that means @Ares de Borg and @Thorvald of Lym , I believe Takhisis has done so in the past as well.
Another new feature of the forum is the ability to "Feature" certain resources in the Downloads Database. This works well in low-level forums, but because the "featured" resources also feature in all forums at a higher level than them, is less ideal at a higher-level. Still, it's something that can show off content that might otherwise be hidden. My current thinking is to mark scenarios that won contests as "Featured", although this can be updated by moderators, so it could be dynamic. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point, "Featuring" scenarios based on the contests of yore eventually leads to more re-upload requests...
This is as good of a place as any to note that I've also been sprucing up the Modern Scenarios list a bit. That means adding links to discussion threads, assigning icons to threads for easier visual identification, and assigning threads to the original creator so it's easier to find content authored by your favorite mods. Thank you to those who re-uploaded the scenarios in the past - for the ones I've updated today, that means @Ares de Borg and @Thorvald of Lym , I believe Takhisis has done so in the past as well.
Another new feature of the forum is the ability to "Feature" certain resources in the Downloads Database. This works well in low-level forums, but because the "featured" resources also feature in all forums at a higher level than them, is less ideal at a higher-level. Still, it's something that can show off content that might otherwise be hidden. My current thinking is to mark scenarios that won contests as "Featured", although this can be updated by moderators, so it could be dynamic. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point, "Featuring" scenarios based on the contests of yore eventually leads to more re-upload requests...
Yup it was technically first discovered by Stromling and then spread around by me as the more people know the better. If anyone sees a broken mod with a atomic gamer link then this trick may just save the day.
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/identifying-lost-mods.678008/#post-16354145
Anyway I need some help too! I'll be very surprised if anyone can help me with these as usually people come to me for help in finding stuff haha so if I need help it means I've really exhausted every option and trick in the book!
A few years ago I tried archives, contacting authors, asking the community but go nowhere and a few more years have gone by!
The first one is Matrix's Civ1 Terrain modpack for Civ3. I managed to speak with Matrix but he's sadly lost his copy. I asked others who'd posted in the thread but had no luck. Bumping the thread did nothing and asking on other forums didn't help either. If anyoine thinks they still have this mod please let me know and I'll put it back on CivFanatics. Here's my original post in his thread with all my investigation details:
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civ1-mod.37121/post-16098224
The second one is the English version & Music addon of Michael's (Russian) Mars Mod scenario for Civ3. Only the original Russian version has been rescued, whereas the English version and the Soundtrack addon are still missing. I've posted about it a few times over the years in a mars thread, have posted in his thread over at the Russian Civ forums, and have tried to contact Michael here, there and over email as well with no luck as he's been missing for over 15yrs. I've just collated all the various investigation details together into a post in his old CFC thread here:
https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/mars-mod-for-conquest.89913/post-16670339
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There seem to be a lot of vintage units not search able through the resource search function. I've come across them on Lab Monkey's unit library threat. For example, the German WW2 Grenadier and the black Nuclear Bomb seem to have been lost with no more option to download them. Only the previews remain. Does anyone still have them?
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Does anybody have a working version of the Vietnamese Elephant Double Crossbow by Imperator? It is part of his Far East Siege Weapons XIIth-XIVth C. pack. Every time I add the unit the game won't load. After selecting the scenario, the progress bar will load to 76% and freeze. Once I remove the unit the game loads fine. It is the UU for the Khmer Civ in my mod.
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https://forums.civfanatics.com/thre...ed-cleaned-vietnamese-elephant-double.690279/
Wotan49
shrunken and run movement cleaned cleaned Vietnamese Elephant Double
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I checked both of those examples and there's no hint of their former download location in the posts themselves, including via the edit post functionality that moderators can use to fix broken links and other forms of bit rot. Same with the Halberdier in post #342.
Whether that is due to a forum migration issue over the past 22 years or Lab Monkey updating the post and removing the link (I see a number that redirect to now-defunct CDGroup pages), I can't tell.
Looking at the Internet Archive's version of the first page, which uses the vBulletin 3 title feature that XenForo does not have, it becomes clear that the format is post with attachment, post with preview image. Maybe due to limitations on post content in 2002? I know there used to be a somewhat low image-per-thread limit even when I joined. And it's clear that some of the units, like the nuke, were migrated to the CDGroup forum. You can read about the fate of CDGroup in this thread, from one of its administrators. But the impact is that if you see the preview, and in the post above it see an "Original deleted. Download from new forum", with a link to cdgroup.org, it stopped resolving more than 15 years ago.
You can try searching for those links at web.archive.org. Some do not work, like the nuclear bomb. But the WW2 Grenadier did work when I tried it - and it's "newgrenadier.zip" which suggests that Lab Monkey made a new version of it and perhaps the others that got moved to CDGroup.
The remaining question that cannot be answered is who is the author? From the Internet Archive I can see that the author was credited in the post title, which did not get carried over to XenForo. nonnob3 is credited with a grenadier, but on September 5, not July 1 per the post. So who created it? In this case, thanks to a readme included in the .zip file, I can see that it is indeed nonnob3; it also notes that is was updated on September 1, 2002, two months after the post from Lab Monkey that had the link to it. But the first post does not it as being updated on September 5, just a few days after the readme.
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With all that as the background (and process of how I check for things when trying to restore them), I've re-uploaded that unit to the Downloads Database, and repaired the link to it in the Unit Library thread.
If there are others you are interested in, I recommend trying them on web.archive.org, and if it finds it, you can upload them to the Downloads database, using the available preview as the image, and if there's a readme, that can be the contents. Then tag me in this thread and I can reassign it to its proper owner and fix the link from the Unit Library thread.
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As for the "not search able through the resource search function", you mean in the Downloads Database, right? That would be because the Downloads Database did not exist before late 2006, so few of the resources created prior to then are present in it (though some were uploaded by their creators or others, e.g. SuperBeaverInc uploaded many of the old maps).
